A round-up of recent Steam Deck news for you
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Blender v3.6 is out now as a new long-term support release
Showing many companies how open source can be seriously successful, Blender version 3.6 is out now and it's a long-term support release so it would be good to upgrade and stick with it for a while.
Aliens: Dark Descent is very real-time XCOM and I love it
Finally, another Aliens game to sink my teeth into. I've been playing Aliens: Dark Descent and overall I'm pretty damn happy with the experience.
One Lonely Outpost to get Linux support around the full release
After a bit of a development hiccup changing developers after the crowdfunding campaign, One Lonely Outpost has hit Early Access with Linux support planned later.
Planetary Life is a neat looking indie sandbox evolution sim
Developer Sotenbox recently put up a trailer for Planetary Life, a pretty neat looking entry into the evolution simulation genre.
The itch.io Summer Selects Bundle 2023 has some real indie gems
Another chance for you to pick up a few sweet games while also saving your pennies. The itch.io Summer Selects Bundle 2023 is live.
Proton Experimental fixes up Street Fighter 6 and other games
For Steam Deck and Linux desktop, Valve has released another Proton Experimental upgrade focusing on fixing up bugs and regressions.
Open source Theme Hospital game engine CorsixTH v0.67 gets a first Beta
Oh goodie, goodbye again free time. Remember the classic Theme Hospital? CorsixTH is a free, open source and cross-platform game engine to keep it looking good on modern systems and a new release is getting close.
Steam Deck compatibility with Starfield to be discussed "later down the road"
Starfield is set to release on September 6th and there's obviously a lot of excitement around it but will it work on Valve's Steam Deck? That's not currently clear.
Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming
Valve clearly still have plenty of big ambitions for Linux gaming and Steam Deck, and as it turns out recently they pulled in yet another developer to work on open source graphics drivers.
The open source NVIDIA NVK driver is coming along well
A project I have a very keen eye on is NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver developed by the community (not NVIDIA), and it seems like progress on it is going rather well.
Steam Deck hits over 10,000 verified and playable games
A big milestone has just been hit for the Steam Deck, as there's now over 10,000 titles rated to be either Verified or Playable.
Get a free copy of RPG card battler Ancient Enemy in the GOG Summer Sale 2023
Ready for another free game? Yes another! Ancient Enemy is the latest giveaway on GOG and it should work just fine on Linux with Wine / Proton.
Top-down paper-folding puzzle adventure Paper Trail talks up Steam Deck support
Need more games for your Steam Deck or desktop Linux with Proton? Paper Trail looks very sweet and the developers are clearly big Steam Deck fans.
The King's Campaign will be playable on Steam Deck and Linux desktop at release
The King's Campaign from Reverie World Studios and Bad Logic Studios is releasing July 13th, and they've recently detailed work to improve it on Steam Deck.
Micro-strategy and base building game Kingdom Eighties is out now
Kingdom Eighties is at least the 4th game in the series and it's a bit of a standalone spin-off, with a rather different setting compared with previous entries.
Linux kernel 6.4 is out now
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the Linux kernel 6.4 and with it, lots and lots of new features and fixes.
Gears 5 gets updated to improve Steam Deck support
Gears 5 from The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios recently had an update that should make it work better on Steam Deck with Proton.
The latest Volcanoids update looks electrifying
Volcanoids is pretty great and a game I keep going back to with each major update, and it looks like they're going to sucker me right in again.
Brotato 1.0 is out now and it's a damn good time
Brotato is something just a little bit special isn't it? Blobfish have managed to craft something that really stands out in a sea of twin-stick bullet-hell vampire survivor-likes that keep flowing.
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